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Zakiah Daradjat was born in Koto Marapak, Agam, Dutch East Indies, on 6 November 1926.Her father, Daradjat Husain was known as an activist in the Muslim organization Muhammadiyah and her mother, Rafi'ah was active in Sarekat Islam.
Interfaith greetings (Indonesian: Salam Lintas Agama), sometimes referred as Bhinneka greetings (Indonesian: Salam Kebhinekaan), [1] are often used to open formal meetings in Indonesia. The phrases combine the greeting phrases of several or all major religions in Indonesia.
Even in the historical record, in a span of about 800 years, Islam had not been able to establish a substantial presence. Notes from the time of the Tang dynasty of China indicated that merchants from the Middle East had come to the kingdom of Shih-li-fo-shi ( Srivijaya ) in Sumatra, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and Holing ( Kalingga ) in Java in the ...
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
Sunan Drajat was born in 1470 CE. He was one of the Wali Songo or "nine Saints", along with his brother Sunan Bonang and his father Sunan Ampel to whom is attributed the establishment of Islam as the dominant religion amongst the Javanese , Indonesia's largest ethnic group.
Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago located off of the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula (on the island of New Guinea), Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. It comprises over 1,500 small islands, cays , and shoals around the four main islands of Misool , Salawati , Batanta , and Waigeo , and the smaller island of Kofiau .
The Bugis people, also known as Buginese, are an Austronesian ethnic group—the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassarese and Torajan), in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia.
The most prominent hospital is the Papua Regional General Hospital (Indonesian: Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Papua) in Jayapura, which is the largest state-owned hospital in the province. [194] Papua is reported to have the highest rates of child mortality and HIV/AIDS in Indonesia. [108]